The ABC's of the Highest Spiritual Practice

Q: I would like to be initiated but there are three things that I don't understand in your Method as I read it: (A) You say that we shouldn't practice any method of meditation that implies the control of breathing.

M: These are not very favorable to spiritual development after a while. As I have told you, everything that is evoked, controlled, or helped by material things is not truly God. God doesn't need anything like that to be awakened. God is already there, and God is God. Messing around with our breathing, our heartbeat, or any mechanism in our body, is sometimes extremely dangerous, also. God has created it the way it is, and we should leave it alone.

Spiritual awakening does not depend on anything, not even the body, because we are not the body to begin with. When we are unconscious, when we are not breathing, or when we are dead, then how can we rely on the breath to be awakened. We have to have the real Thing that is always awake twenty-four hours after It has been awakened. That is why I told you that to find God, you don't need to do anything. God is God. Why do we have to do anything?

The true Method is silence, but in silence, we will know God. Not that in silence, and then nothing. No, it's not that. God is God. There's nothing we can do to know Hirm. Hes is just there. I will show you where to look to reveal Hirm. This is why we advise you not to mix all these kinds of material so-called "methods". If you feel that you are not ready for this Supreme Power within yourself and you are not ready to be a Supreme Master again yourself, then stay with any other method you like. If you want to be the Supreme Master again, then forget all these baby games.

Q: (B) You also say that we can't use our spiritual power to cure others.

M: Yes, of course not, because they have the power within themselves. While we are on the way to find God, we should just concentrate on God; and once we know God already, our healing power is automatic. We have no need to use any material gestures or actions in order to show someone else that we are a genius, we are powerful, or we are better than he is. In fact, we should be quiet about our power. That's why in the Bible it is said that when you pray to the Father, be quiet; close yourself in the closet. That means you do it quietly, secretly, and the Father will reward you openly.

How does Hes reward you openly? You will be more successful, more intelligent, more loving, more wise, more everything - and more God-like. And when a God-like person walks on the street, His spiritual power naturally heals whoever needs to be healed. Whoever has faith in God, whoever has affinity with us, when we walk or go near that person, when we just incidentally see that person, he will be healed, will be uplifted. But that is by the will of God, not by the will of our hand or any of our ego's so-called "healing actions". That's why when a woman touched the dress of Jesus and was healed, when she thanked Him, He said, "Your faith has healed you." He did not try to claim credit for the healing power, but He knew that He had it. There are many things I could go on and on about the Bible, but this is not a Bible session, so we will stop it here.

Q: (C) And You also say that we can't combine other methods with the Quan Yin. Does this mean that we must blindly follow a method?

M: Actually we have already talked about that in part A. When you want to be a doctor, you should not mess about with other work until you finish your studies. When you want to learn medicine, you just concentrate on learning medicine, and then you will become a doctor more quickly. Even if another method is good, standing on two boats at the same time is detrimental. You should do one thing at a time.

If you like other methods better, they suit you more, you are more convinced, please be welcome to stay there and concentrate on that. If you are convinced that our Method is good for you, suitable and the best, come and concentrate on this; otherwise, you will not be successful in either and at the end you don't know either one. You will lose your time and lose both methods.

All these are just our best spiritual advice. It's not forbidden; it's not an order from me or from any Master. It is just that we tell you what we know is the best and quickest for you. We know that in everything in which we want to be successful, we have to concentrate on that thing. Even while you are driving a car, you cannot ride a bicycle, however beautiful it is.

Q: Christ died and suffered for us. He shared all our miseries, why aren't we happy?

M: Yes, good question. Jesus died for his disciples. The ones He initiated directly benefited from His sacrifice. Those related to His disciples benefited secondarily. The people in His time were somewhat elevated from the darkness, to some degree. The people who saw him, touched him, and contacted him, were uplifted to heaven and the whole planet profited somewhat from His sacrifice after He left the Earth. That's why our world is better than the way it was. The same is true for many other Masters. Whatever they did, wherever they went, they benefited that place. Time after time, they uplifted the planet into a more civilized atmosphere.

But personal enlightenment, we must have ourselves. Whatever Jesus said is correct only for when He was alive and for His disciples. That's why we must find our own Master inside, our own Christ within. We are all children of God. If one person eats, the other cannot be filled; we have to eat ourselves.